Robotics

AAA20 Group Offers Subscription-based Robotic Solutions

AAA20 Group, LLC's RaaS (Robotics as a Service) is designed to help integrate collaborative robotic automation in small to mid-size companies.

November 3, 2021

Machinery: Page 152

Flexible packaging

ProMach Acquires CL&D Graphics and CL&D Digital

ProMach

The addition of CL&D expands ProMach’s portfolio of flexible and rigid packaging systems and strengthens its ability to provide complete machinery and material solutions for a variety of packaging applications.

November 3, 2021

Flexible packaging

Matrix Joins Other ProMach Brands in Creating New Blog on Flexible Packaging Equipment Solutions

Matrix Packaging Machinery

The new blog will connect readers with helpful information and guidance on packaging equipment solutions around ProMach’s Flexibles and Trays business line.

November 1, 2021

Secondary Packaging

How Bumble Bee Seafood is Transitioning Multipack Shrink Wrap to Recyclable Cartons

The company produces 26 million multipacks each year, and saw an opportunity to transition to more readily recyclable packaging through a partnership with R.A Jones.

October 27, 2021

Operational Excellence

When the Identity of a Packaging Supplier is Withheld from the Buyer

The practice is legal; however, whether it’s justifiable is debatable. What’s certain is that it is less than forthcoming.

October 27, 2021

Secondary Packaging

Nuspark Highlights Customizable Quality of Vertical Rotary Cartoner

The VRC-60, displayed at PACK EXPO Las Vegas, goes above and beyond cartoning with loading, printing, coding, inspecting, and other capabilities compacted into a single machine.

October 22, 2021

Case/tray packing

Schubert’s North American Debut of Case Packer at PACK EXPO Las Vegas Successful

Schubert North America

Schubert North America, part of the Schubert Group based in Crailsheim, Germany, successfully premiered its new case packer, the lightline carton packer.

October 22, 2021

Flexible packaging

VC999 Launches Rollstock Thermoformer for Small and Mid-size Companies

The new R-series machine, launched at PACK EXPO Las Vegas, can run a variety of packaging types at increased speeds.

October 22, 2021

Sustainability

Ranpak to Build Innovation Center in Connecticut

Ranpak

Governor Ned Lamont announced that Ranpak Holdings Corp. will build an 80,000 sq ft innovation and automation center in Shelton, Conn. It expects to initially employ 35 workers at the facility and increase that amount to around 80 to 100 workers by 2024.

October 22, 2021

Secondary Packaging

BW Integrated Systems Highlights User-friendly, Vertical, Flexible, High-level Palletizer

At PACK EXPO Las Vegas, user-friendly machine meets customer and market demands with quick, vertical start-up.

October 21, 2021

Inspect/detect/checkweigh/x-ray

Detector Technologies Enable Poultry Processors to Find Minute Bone Fragments

Eagle Product Inspection

Eagle Product Inspection developed the Performance X-ray Technology (PXT™) detector technology to capture more detailed data about a product than previously possible. It can find bone fragments as small as 0.6 mm.

October 21, 2021

Home

All-Purpose Intelligent Robot Control System

MujinController manages any robotic application guiding the movement of robot arms via machine intelligence, a new category of artificial intelligence that automatically manages potential downtime scenarios through autonomous motion planning.

October 21, 2021

Workforce

Women, E-comm, and Collaborative Tech Shape a New Way of Working

An expert panel at the Packaging & Processing Women’s Leadership Network discussed women and remote work, as well as solutions for adapting to pandemic-era consumer buying trends. Read, watch, or listen to the conversation.

October 20, 2021